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How to Borrow Securities in Repo

When people borrow securities is it most often to short them so for example, you know you borrow a Greek bond because you want a shorter Greek bond. So I want to borrow borrow the expensive one sell it by by the cheap one kind of bet on converging can also be used to hedge derivatives. The fed owns a lot of a lot of treasuries has a huge portfolio, and it lends those treasuries out through the reverse repo facility.

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